Genus Reduvius Fabricius, 1775

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• Reduvius Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April] [729] [placed on the Official List of Generic Names; Opinion 104, direction 63].

  Type species:

   Cimex personatus Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considération Générales sur l'Order Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes; avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres Disposés en Familles. Paris : F. Schoell viii 444 pp. [this work is the subject of Opinions 11 and 136, ICZN, and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature] [433].
• Ryparocoris Schummel, T.E. 1827. Eine ganz neue Wanzengattung. Jahresbericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für Vaterländische Kultur, Breslau 1826: 22 [22] [junior objective synonym of Reduvius Fabricius, 1775].

  Type species:

   Cimex personatus Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.
• Opsicoetus Klug, J.C.F. 1830. Symbolae Physicae, seu icones et descriptiones insectorum, quae ex itinere per Africam borealem et Asian F.G. Hemprich et C.G. Ehrenberg studio novae aut illustratae redierunt. Berlin : Mittler Vol. 2 a-f, 11-20 pls. [fol. e].

  Type species:

   Opsicoetus tabidus Klug, 1830 by subsequent designation, see China, W.E. 1943. The Generic Names of British Insect. Prepared by the Committee on Generic Nomenclature of the Royal Entomological Society of London with the assistance of the Department of Entomology of the British Museum of Natural History. Part 8. The generic names of the British Hemiptera-Heteroptera, with a check list of the British species. London : Royal Entomological Society of London 211-342 pp. [249].
• Oplistopus Yakovlev, B.E. 1874. [Bemerkungen über die geographische Verbreitung der Hemiptera Heteroptera; nach dem 1872 gessammelten Material]. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 8: 46-82 [In Russian] [78].

  Type species:

   Oplistopus christophi Yakovlev, 1874 by monotypy.
• Holotrichiopsis Yakovlev, B.E. 1901. Description d'une nouveau genre de Reduviides (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Revue Russe d'Entomologie 1: 101-102 [101].

  Type species:

   Holotrichiopsis ursinus Yakovlev, 1901 by monotypy.
• Parthocoris China, W.E. & Miller, N.C.E. 1950. The third Danish Expedition to Central Asia, Zoological Results 3. Hemiptera (Insecta) from Afghanistan. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 112: 225-234 [228].

  Type species:

   Parthocoris typicus China & Miller, 1950 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Burmeister, H. 1835. Handbuch der Entomologie. Zweiter Band: II Ordnung Rhynchota. Berlin : Theod. Ehr. Friedr. Enslin iv 400 pp. [234] (synonymy of Opsicoetus)
• Puton, A. 1890. Une douzaine d'Hémiptères nouveaux et notes diverses. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 9: 227-236 (synonymy of Oplistopus)
• Kiritshenko, A.N. 1917. Annotationes de quibusdam Reduviidis (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). Annals of the Museum of Zoology, Academy of Science, Petrograd 21: 164 [164] (synonymy of Holotrichiopsis)
• Putshkov, P.V. 1983. On the change of the taxonomic status of Parthocoris Miller, 1950 and Pseudoreduvius Villiers, 1948 (Heteroptera, Reduviidae). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (English translation as Entomological Reviews) 62: 728-731 [In Russian] [730] (synonymy of Parthocoris, also for alternative taxonomic arrangement, Pseudoreduvius as a junior synonym)

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